Does HTML5 really beat Flash?
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- SteveJobs0
apple's iphone/touch/ipad aren't the most lucrative platforms for adobe. sure, adobe would love to get it's runtime working on them so they can bring in a slew of wannbe iphone devs who've long been scared shitless over the syntactical nightmare that is objective c, and show them the power of actionscript 3. but this alone won't dethrone the photoshizzle corp.
google isn't even worth mentioning. none of their products have any real impact on the future of flash. that also goes for youtube and any other video portal out there. let 'em use html5 to serve their vids.
microsoft's silverlight - haha. umm.. no.
and yep, market saturation is a big wiener for adobe, but so is having a technology that still offers cross-browser application development, a pretty decent object-oriented language for building large-scale enterprise applications (mmorpg anyone?), and ... wait, you know what i can stop there. most devs (i mean designers) don't really appreciate that last point. too many are unaware of the shit that's being done out there that simply cannot be done using javascript, ajax, and php/asp/jsp/whatever-sp. the closest thing you've got is java, and that plug-in technology is almost as old as internet browsers themselves. it's not going anywhere. i'm not going to be able to convince you of this, you'll just have to wait and see.